In this week’s carcast, we discuss data moats, the generative AI iceberg and ways to outpace the competition. We highlight the data-driven success of Andrew Storrs, data leader at Canadian fashion designer Aritzia and talk about the insightful gen AI iceberg concept by Tony Seale, knowledge graph engineer at investment firm UBS.
This week’s video also includes a discussion on data moats…
Peridot uses Gen AI to make its virtual beasties more lifelike
November 16, 2023
Niantic announced today that it’s making an update to its mobile title, Peridot that will supposedly give its virtual pets, the Dots, more life.
Using generative AI, Dots can more realistically interact with real-world objects with their augmented space, which Niantic…
Nvidia launches AI foundry service for Microsoft Azure with new Nemotron-3 8B models
November 16, 2023
Nvidia is strengthening its co-sell strategy with Microsoft. Today, at the Ignite conference hosted by the Satya Nadella-led giant, the chipmaker announced an AI foundry service that will help enterprises and startups build custom AI applications on the Azure cloud…
Synopsys.ai Copilot accelerates AI-driven chip design
November 16, 2023
Chip design software firm Synopsys has unveiled Synopsys.ai Copilot as an AI-driven accelerator for designing semiconductor chips.
Sunnyvale, California-based Synopsys said the electronic design automation (EDA) tools uses groundbreaking generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capability for the copilot. This innovation, born out of a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, leverages the Azure…
Dacoco’s Alien Worlds teams up with sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson on AI Web3 metaverse
November 16, 2023
Dacoco, the group behind the Alien Worlds Web3 metaverse, announced a collaboration with renowned science fiction author Kevin J. Anderson, known for works such as Star Wars, Dune and Saga of the Seven Suns.
The collaboration introduces AI-driven tokenized storytelling…
Microsoft is moving to strengthen its computing infrastructure play with the announcement of two new in-house chips for enterprises: Azure Maia 100 and Azure Cobalt 100.
Showcased at this week’s Microsoft Ignite 2023 conference in Seattle, the tech giant’s largest annual…
Microsoft goes all-in on Gen AI: Everything it announced at Ignite
November 16, 2023
Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, held in Seattle this year, was packed this morning with announcements and updates on the company’s vision and technology around generative AI.
The announcements, which included everything from new AI chip hardware and software to security, and open source format moves, show Microsoft is pulling out all of the stops it can to exert leadership in in the…
Language is fundamental to human interaction — but so, too, is the emotion behind it.
Expressing happiness, sadness, anger, frustration or other feelings helps convey our messages and connect us.
While generative AI has excelled in many other areas, it has struggled to…
Nvidia and Intel unveil advanced HPC initiatives, bolstering AI capabilities at SC2023
November 15, 2023
The world’s fastest supercomputers are getting faster with both Nvidia and Intel racing to accelerate the most powerful computing systems on Earth, with a big emphasis on AI power.
At the Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) conference in Denver today, the list of the world’s…
What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model launched two weeks before ChatGPT
November 15, 2023
One year ago — and two weeks before OpenAI released ChatGPT — Meta released a research demo called Galactica. An open source “large language model for science” that was trained on data including 48 million scientific papers, Meta touted Galactica’s ability to “summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and…
